Tie for personal wear



Nov. 29, 1932. w. T. STANLEY TIE FOR PERSONAL WEAR Filed June 17, 1951 FIG. 5.

Patented Nov. 29, 1932 UihliTED STATES WILLIAM THOMAS STANLEY, OF LONDON, ENGLAND TIE roa PERSONAL WEAR Application filed June 17, 1931, Serial ITO-545,086, and in Great Britain June 21, 1930.

This invention, which relates to neckties for personal wear, has reference to a. novel construction of tie which possesses a desirable degree of extensibility or elasticity.

The necktie according to the present invention consists broadly of a fabric body of extensible or elastic material and an extensible or elastic reinforcing or backing strip of fabric which is secured along its longitudinal edges to outturned seam portions in the interior of said body.

The reinforcing or backing strip is constituted by a length of woven fabric having bias threads, or by obliquely cutting a length from woven cloth of usual structure, or by a length of elastic material orthe equivalent.

Alternatively the reinforcing or backing strip which is extensible as a whole is not made equally extensible in parts throughout its whole length, the neck-encircling portion of the strip being in itself substantially inextensible.

The fabric body of the tie may be formed of bias-woven material or bias-cut from woven or knitted fabric or straight out from knitted or woven fabric in such a manner that it is extensible.

The fabric body of the tie may be made up into tubular form by stitching or otherwise securing a length of material so as to leave a free longitudinal length or portion of the material on each side of the back seam, to which lengths or portions the reinforcing or backing strip is secured along its opposite longitudinal edges to form a fiat sleeve portion inside the back of the tie, which sleeve is bounded at the back by the two seam portions and at the front by the reinforcing or backing strip.

If desired, the longitudinal interior seam lengths or portions which form an integral part of the fabric body may extend beyond the longitudinal edges of the reinforcing or backing strip and terminate at or near the sides of the body.

An embodiment of the invention is illus trated by the accompanyingdrawing, where- 1n:

Figure l is a rear View of a tie with a reinforcing strip which is equally extensible throughout its length.

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view on line 22 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 1 of a tie'with a reinforcing strip which is extensible as a whole but not equally extensible throughout its length. I

The body a of the tie is formed from a shaped blank in accordance with customary practice so that when made up into tubular form the usual narrow neck-encircling portion or length is produced. The edges of the fabric at the opposite ends Z), c of the body a are turned in as usual to form a hem cl. Two marginal lengths h and 7c of the body ma terial adjacent the longitudinal edges of the bodyforming blank are folded and outwardly turned, in the interior of the tubular body (1!. thus formed, toward the opposite outer longitudinal creased edges of said body, so as to be disposed one on each side of the sewn back seam g. The reinforcing or backing strip i which extends between points 6 and f is secured along its opposite longitudinal edges to the seam lengths h and is by stitching m. i

In the alternative form illustrated in Figure 3, the extensible portion or portions L V of the reinforcing or backing strip is constituted by a length of woven fabric having bias-threads, or by obliquely cutting a length from woven cloth of usual structure, or by a length of elastic material or the equivalent.

The substantially inextensible portion L of'the strip is constituted by a length of any suitable textile material and is preferably placed in the neck-encircling portion of the tie between two lengths of material such as L which together form the extensible por- 0 tion of the reinforcing or backing strip; alternatively, the reinforcing or backing strip may be extensible throughout its length and the central portion thereof may berendered substantially inextensible by stitching o1 otherwise suitably securing thereto a strip of any suitable substantially inextensible materia The fabric body of the tie may be made up into tubular form by stitching or otherwise securing a length of material as at 9 so as to leave a free longitudinal length or portion of the material on each side of the back seam as at h and 7a, to which lengths h and k the composite reinforcing or backing strip L L is secured along its opposite longitudinal edges m to form a flat sleeve portion inside the back of the tie, which sleeve is bounded at the back by the two seam portions h and la and at the front by the reinforcing or backing strip L L The reinforcing strip may be secured in position by one or more rows of stitches extending through the Whole or part length of the tie.

I claim 1. A necktie comprising a tubular body inclusive of extensible front and back portions, the back portion comprising two side sections, a seam connecting said sections together in wardly of their free edge portions, the free edge portions of said back sections being directed outwardly relative to the seam and being disposed between said front and back portions, and a reinforcing strip disposed between said front and back portions in overlying relation to the seam and secured to the free edge portions of the back sections outwardly of said seam, there being no connection of said strip with the back of the tie inwardly of the connections of said strip with the free edge portions of the back sections.

2. A necktie comprising a tubular body inclusive of extensible from and back portions, the back portion comprising two side sec tions, a seam connecting said sections together inwardly of their free edge portions, the free edge portions of said back sections being directed outwardly relative to the seam and being disposed between said front and back portions, and an extensible reinforcing strip disposed between said front and back portions in overlying relation to the seam and secured along its side edges to the free edge portions of the back sections outwardly of said seam, there being no connection of said strip with the back of the tie inwardly of the connections of said strip with the free edge portions of the back sections. '3. A necktie as set forth in claim 1 in which the reinforcing strip is inclusive of extensible end portions and a relatively inextensible middle section.

4;. A necktie as set forth in claim 1 in which the reinforcing strip is composed in the direction of its length of sections having different amounts of maximum extensibility.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature hereto this 5th day of June 1931.

WILLIAM THOMAS STANLEY. 

